By Nathoo Ram,on March 5th,2012 Eighteen bloodied bodies,shot Gestapo-style,lay by the roadside. Men in army uniforms had stopped four buses bound from Rawalpindi to Gilgit,demanding that all 117 persons on board alight.Those with Shia sounding names on their national identification cards were separated out. Minutes later it was all over;the earlier massacres of Hazara Shias in Mastung and . . . →Read More:Why should religion make us lose respect for human life? By Inaam.Chandio,on March 1st,2012 Though no age in the human history is immaculate of the bloodspots of violence but in the present phase of the history when due to fast means of communication the world has withered into a village,violence has become a hot burning topic everywhere. By nature and manifestation violence is of different kinds. One is . . . →Read More:Islam and the ‘history’ of violence By Mir Jamshed Baloch,on February 23rd,2012 “Yours is a great country with enormous resources of wealth,experience and technical skill. We,who believe in individual initiative,effort and enterprise do not believe that the era of private ownership is over. But we do believe that we have entered upon an era when capital should come out of its shell and move . . . →Read More:Anti-Americanism on the rise in Pakistan? By Deepika Jaitley,on February 13th,2012 Eight cons dressed as policemen,riding a police mobile,robbed a bank of around Rs2.3 million in cash and jewelry worth more than Rs200 million in Chichawatni on Monday. . . . →Read More:Bank robbed by conmen dressed as policemen By Bahram Zackarya,on January 16th,2012 An elderly woman and her daughter were killed in an attack in one of the rooms in the VIP ward of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences late on Saturday night. According to the police,the attackers’ target was Rana Sarwat,an under-trial prisoner,who was under treatment after he suffered bullet wounds in district courts . . . →Read More:Woman and daughter killed as attackers opened fire on the wrong target By Tina McCloughy,on January 6th,2012 They all heard some version of the same thing.“Whaddaya mean,deployed?” Or “I thought everyone came home.” . . . →Read More:Families scared to see their loved ones deployed to Afghanistan By Maryam Rahman,on December 30th,2011 The body of a newborn baby was excavated from the Malikpur graveyard in Faisalabad on Monday evening. . . . →Read More:Blackmagic:Infant’s body missing from grave in Faisalabad By Tina McCloughy,on December 27th,2011 From Egypt,to Athens,to Oakland,police have employed “non-lethal weapons”to break down recent protests and disperse protesters. . . . →Read More:Non-lethal weapons and the threat they pose By Inaam.Chandio,on December 5th,2011 I hate to be honest and factual about certain issues and subjects…Unfortunately Pakistan’s future happens to be one such subject. It’s like discussing future medical treatment for a 100% certified terminally ill patient whose chances of recovery are worse than none. While the doctors discuss with family of the patient what . . . →Read More:Pakistan –Its broke and you can’t fix it! By Alizeh Khattak,on November 25th,2011 Zainab tried a new ingredient for Qorma yesterday – her husband. It was the olfactory insult that brought the police to her door. The landlord,Behzad,who lived on the ground floor of their two-storey Green Town house,was so perturbed by the cooking that he went upstairs to inquire. The scene that met his . . . →Read More:Murdered,chopped up,cooked:Woman arrested for cooking husband | |
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